( October 30, 2026, 12:24 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied a Georgia city’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a ruling that two companies’ appeal automatically stayed a federal judge’s order remanding to state court a lawsuit, which the companies had removed under a federal officer removal theory, that was filed over the alleged unlawful release of mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into waterways and marshland....